by Barbara Rich | Apr 5, 2018 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, Notorious
What are a person’s best interests in a decision to permit use of samples of body fluids or tissue for a purpose which is neither of direct therapeutic benefit to the person him or herself, or an act of direct altruism towards another person? The law of mental...
by Barbara Rich | Oct 15, 2017 | Cases, Comment, Court of Protection, FCReportingWatch
UPDATE 18 October – I’ve added a footnote to discuss some points which have been raised in Twitter conversations following my original post. On 11 October 2017, this headline appeared on the BBC news website. The story naturally aroused a lot of interest...
by Barbara Rich | Aug 25, 2017 | Comment
A few months ago, Paul Magrath wrote a post on the figures behind the Daily Telegraph’s headline “financial abuse rockets as more powers of attorney challenged by courts”, showing that the rocket turned out to be a very small damp squib. The subject of that post...
by Barbara Rich | Aug 18, 2017 | Analysis, Comment, Court of Protection
An interview with recently-retired senior judge of the Court of Protection, Denzil Lush, on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Tuesday 15 August 2017, and associated coverage on the BBC News website and other mainstream media, has led to a flurry of comment and...
by Barbara Rich | Aug 6, 2017 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch, Uncategorized
UPDATED 23 AUGUST 2017 to add developments since date of first posting under the sub-heading “The story becomes the story” Over the weekend of 22 and 23 July I wrote a post about the legal dispute between Great Ormond Street Hospital and the parents of 11...
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